<HollyhockGod> Confession Time: I enlisted borogove before the session started and we agreed that Fiona would start sabotaging the Chancel.

<Alexa> "Oh, Ryan, you're not pompous."

<HollyhockGod> OR DID I

<RyanSherbrig> "I won't forget this act. For our own good, indeed. Think of the work we could accomplish in five days! Wasted!"

<Ebba> "I seem to recall you getting a few of your 'fervent in the service of the Light' buttons being pushed a while back…"

<RyanSherbrig> "Potential lives saved, lost forever!"

<HollyhockGod> Didn't you spend most of last week on the beach drinking kahlua?

<RyanSherbrig> "We could triumph over Death itself! Not that I have anything against Marley- she's a very lovely woman; it’s just her ideas about inevitability in regards to her estate and human life."

<Alexa> (You've suggested we've had some down time between stories, though.)

<Ebba> "Should we start planning for a party, then?"

<HollyhockGod> Yes, but there wasn't any between "Fool" and the trial story, and not much between then and EE's party.

<Alexa> "I think that's a bad idea."

<RyanSherbrig> "Nonsense. That would be a violation of our quarantine."

<HollyhockGod> A goat-headed butler, sensing your mood, begins setting out small tables for drinks and bringing a pitcher to fill with more kahlua.

<Alexa> "Thanks, Billy."

<Ebba> "Isn't it just Fiona that is being quarantined? Admittidely, the servants of Lord Entropy may be a bit zealous in enforcing that"

<HollyhockGod> The goat has long ago given up hope of not being given an apropos designation.

<HollyhockGod> He simply bows.

<RyanSherbrig> "He explicitly indicated that he considered us all at risk."

<RyanSherbrig> "He'll probably call Maliq or Vesper as his 'neutral third party', too, at this rate."

<Ebba> "I’m sure Vesper will be interestd in Fiona's well being"

<HollyhockGod> It'd be easier for you to bribe Vesper than for Joktan to do it! That's kind of like neutral.

<HollyhockGod> Monothaia rumbles.

<Alexa> "Quiet, you!"

<HollyhockGod>"What's going on out there?"

<HollyhockGod>"Are we being invaded? What did you do this time?"

<RyanSherbrig> "I'm half inclined to simply the spend the five days in the summoning chamber. I've been meaning to bind the Heart of Spring, or perhaps an Angyalka."

<Ebba> "E'jah is worried about Fiona's possession of an excrutian artifact"

<Alexa> "You know that scarab Fi picked up? It's from Outside. We have to stay here for five days in case it takes her over."

<HollyhockGod>"You did WHAT? Idiots!"

<RyanSherbrig> "I could probably summon something that could deal with unwanted bonds, too."

<HollyhockGod>"There's really nothing to do now. Just let me have her and you could go and find a replacement."

<Alexa> "Hey, watch your tone, lady!"

<RyanSherbrig> "Some sort of metaphysical psychosurgeon of the soul or the like."

RyanSherbrig deliberately ignores Monothaia.

<HollyhockGod> Monothaia fills Alexa's blouse with mosquitoes.

<Alexa> "Hey!"

<HollyhockGod> Biting! Itching! And then relief as you burn them to ashes, presumably.

<RyanSherbrig> "I'm sure there was something like that detailed in the Antigrammatikos."

<Alexa> (Indeed.)

<HollyhockGod>"Don't blame me for the problems you created."

Fiona moves to stand next to Alexa.

<HollyhockGod>"I've never put the Chancel at risk by becoming a breach in security."

<Alexa> "I wasn't blaming you, you stupid cow!"

<RyanSherbrig> "Monothaia. I am willing to overlook your eccenctricities such as burning down the entire chancel periodically. But attacks upon my Family I will not stand. And that still includes Fiona, for the moment."

<HollyhockGod>"I'm not going to be called a cow by a stupid mammal."

<HollyhockGod>"Nor can you order me around either, Sherbrig."

<HollyhockGod>"Given your current position, you don't have the moral high ground, in any case."